[Report 1928] / Medical Officer of Health and Port Medical Officer of Health, Great Yarmouth Borough.

Great Yarmouth (England). Borough Council. nb2008007343.

Date:: 1928

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Credit: [Report 1928] / Medical Officer of Health and Port Medical Officer of Health, Great Yarmouth Borough. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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a definite increase in the disease and not merely a shifting of cases from other, perhaps indefinite, categories to that of definitely diagnosed malignant disease. Respiratory Diseases. Deaths from these diseases are well below the decennial average. Diarrhceal Diseases. The deaths remain very low. This is very gratifying in comparison with the great mortality of infants from these diseases in former years. Wasting Diseases of Infants. The deaths continue at a low level. Enteric Disease. This disease used to be endemic in Great Yarmouth. It now only occurs occasionally. In 1928 there was an unusually high number—12. » Puerperal Fever and Pyrexia. One case of each occurred, giving a rate of o.or per thousand in comparison with 0.06 for the country generally. Erysipelas. The rate was 0.41 in comparison with 0.42 for England and Wales.